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Section 16: Employee Organization Activities - Use of City Resources Access to City work locations and the use of City paid time, facilities, equip- ment and other resources by employee organizations and those representing them shall be authorized only to the extent provided for in Memoranda of Understand- ing and/or administrative procedures; shall be limited to activities pertaining directly to the employer-employee relationship and not such internal employee organization business as soliciting membership, campaigning for office, and organization meetings and elections; and shall not interfere with the efficiency, safety and security of City operations. Section 17: Administrative Rules and Procedures The Employee Relations Officer is hereby authorized to establish such rules and procedures as appropriate to implement and administer the provisions of this Resolution after consultation with affected employee organizations. Section 18: Initiation of Impasse Procedures If the meet and confer process has reached impasse as defined in this Resolution, either party may initiate the impasse procedures by filing with the other party a written request for an impasse meeting, together with a statement of its posi- tion on all disputed issues. An impasse meeting shall then be scheduled promptly by the Employee Relations Officer. The purpose of such impasse meeting shall be: A. To identify and specify in writing the issue or issues that remain in dispute. B. To review the position of the parties in a final effort to resolve such dis- puted issue or issues; and C. If the dispute is not resolved, to discuss arrangements for the utilization of the impasse procedures provided herein. Section 19: Impasse Procedures Impasse procedures are as follows: A. If the parties so agree, the issue or issues at impasse shall be submitted directly to the City Council for determination. Be If they do not agree within seven (7) days following the conclusion of the impasse meeting set forth in Section 18 above, either party may submit the impasse to mediation. (1) Ail mediation proceedings shall be private and the mediator shall make no public recommendation, nor take any public position at any time concerning the issues. (2) . If the parties are unable to agree on a mediator after a reasonable period of time, they shall select the mediator from a list of three names to be provided by the State Conciliation Service, or if that agency for any reason shall fail to provide such list, by the American Arbitration Association. (3) Upon receipt of such list, the parties shall alternately strike names from the list until a single name remains who shall become the mediator. The priority of striking names shall alternate from one party to the other each time impasse procedures are invoked by the same parties. The employee organization or the City shall commence this process in an order determined by lot by striking the first name from such list of names in any initial mediation. (4) The cost of the mediator, if any, shall be shared equally by both parties. (5) If the parties have failed to resolve all their disputes through mediation within fifteen (15) days after the mediator co~enced meeting with the parties, the parties may agree to submit the issues in dispute directly to the City Council. In that event, the City Council shall finally determine the issues after conducting a public hearing thereon and after such further investigation of the relevant facts as it may deem appropriate.